156 pages ; 21 cm

After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps

Bright weekend -- Everyone has a shadow -- Doubt is the blackest shadow -- An end of tears -- Moved out -- Life on a race track -- Valley Forge -- Somewhere, sometime -- Memory books and romance -- Out from the barbed wire? -- Taking it on the chin -- Pioneer Amache -- The wound -- Zoot suits -- Mostly Jiro -- Father -- The telegram -- Kim -- Shining day

Newbery Honor Book, 1946

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